U.S. Import Price Index — The United States Import Price Index is published by the United States Department of Labor s Bureau of Labor Statistics. It is part of the Office of Prices and Living Conditions. It began as an annual publication, publishing its first index in… … Wikipedia
Price index — A price index (plural: “price indices” or “price indexes”) is a normalized average (typically a weighted average) of prices for a given class of goods or services in a given region, during a given interval of time. It is a statistic designed to… … Wikipedia
List of price index formulas — A number of different formulas, at least hundreds, have been proposed as means of calculating price indexes. While price index formulas all use price and quantity data, they amalgamate this data in different ways. A price index generally… … Wikipedia
U.S. Producer Price Index — The official measure of producer prices in the US is called the Producer Price Index (PPI). It measures average changes in prices received by domestic producers for their output. The PPI was known as the Wholesale Price Index, or WPI, up to 1978 … Wikipedia
index of import prices — importo kainų indeksas statusas Aprobuotas sritis kainų statistika apibrėžtis Santykinis rodiklis, kuriuo išreiškiamas prekių ir paslaugų, kurias šalies rezidentai perka iš užsienio, bendrasis kainų pokytis per tam tikrą laikotarpį. santrumpa(… … Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)
Import Certificates — are an idea for governmental economic intervention to fix a country s trade deficit. The idea was first proposed by Warren Buffett. In the United States, the idea was first introduced legislatively in the Balanced Trade Restoration Act of 2006.… … Wikipedia
Import — For other uses, see Import (disambiguation). World trade A series on Trade … Wikipedia
U.S. Import and Export Price Indices — The U.S. Import and Export Price Indices measure average changes in prices of goods and services that are imported or exported. The indices is produced monthly by the International Price Program (IPP) of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Import … Wikipedia
2007–2008 world food price crisis — The years 2007–2008 saw dramatic rises in world food prices, creating a global crisis and causing political and economical instability and social unrest in both poor and developed nations. Systemic causes for the world wide increases in food… … Wikipedia
Big Mac Index — A McDonalds Big Mac. The Big Mac Index is published by The Economist as an informal way of measuring the purchasing power parity (PPP) between two currencies and provides a test of the extent to which market exchange rates result in goods costing … Wikipedia
